| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Just NE of Mount Waddington, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°23'29"N, 125°14'41"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92N/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 5 October 1950 on 92N, as labelled on "Sketch map of a portion of the Coast Mountains" to accompany the article "The 1934 Attempts on Mt. Waddington" by Henry Hall, Jr. (American Alpine Journal, vol II, No. 3, 1935), and as identified in "The Unknown Mountain" by Don Munday, 1948. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...presents a slender, fairly symmetrical form, ...a pair of pale reddish buttresses support the twin peaks and a slanting shelf of some breadth breaks the continuity of the eastern buttress in its otherwise clean upthrust out of Tiedemann Glacier. ...from that angle Mt. Combatant [sic] claims rank as a classic of mountain architecture because of its simplicity and unity in expressing aspiration." ( from "The Unknown Mountain" by Don Munday, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London, 1948, p.202.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |